Ahmadinejad earlier met today met with RA President Serzh Sargsyan and other Armenian government officials for discussions on a number of bilateral and regional issues.
“The problem vis-a-vis Russo-Armenian relations is that Yerevan underestimates its importance to Moscow and overestimates Russia’s importance to Armenia,” Giragosian noted.
The group points out that Nayira Balayan was found guilty of the crime and that her two year sentence was upheld by the Court of Cassation on September 26, 2011.
Pupils gathered around the school entrance told Hetq that they won’t go back to class until Armen Niazyan, a village resident who lost the election, is appointed the school’s principal.
Since when has the protection of a criminal act been “freedom of speech” or “holding an opinion”? Go to Canada, for example, and publicly “express your opinion” that, say, black people or Armenians are filthy or lazy. You do know what they would do to you, right? You would end up in jail or be penalised in some other fashion for inciting “hate speech”.
Turkey strongly condemns the law proposal adopted by the French National Assembly, which deeply offends the Turkish people, defames our history on the basis of one-sided interpretations and aims to deprive us from our right to defend ourselves against this injustice. This initiative is unjust, inappropriate and contradicts relevant rules of international law.
The French Parliament aims to pass a bill that will criminalize defending, denying, disputing and deeming inferior the crimes against humanity, genocides and war crimes.
In the wake of yesterday’s passage of a bill in the French National Assembly criminalizing the denial of the 1915 Armenian Genocide, Turkey has responded with the following measures:
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